Web Site Design Basics

(PRWEB) April 30, 2005

If a page doesn’t load in 8 seconds you lose 1/3 of your visitors. Limit your text and limit the length of your lines. Use around 65 characters per line. Long lines are hard to follow. Dashes and bullets increase readability while bold or italics can make key points stand out.

Black text on white background works well on Web sites. On some screens the black and white contrast is far too strong and tires the eyes so then the background should be off-white. If your text is white, for example, make your background image dark. Text on a background with patterns is difficult to read, the text color may blend in, making part of the text impossible to see and read. If an image must be used as background it should not disrupt reading. Make sure the text color contrasts so it is easily read.

San serif fonts work best, and are created to be very readable at small sizes and on most screens. Use different sizes and colors for headings, subheadings and paragraphs and give plenty of space in between, to avoid monotony. Use as few stop words as possible [e.g. and, to, when, etc]. A Web page should have a primary heading describing very briefly what the page is about. It should also have secondary headings for each important section. Use HTML tables to divide a long page into two or more columns.

Some Web sites don’t use up all of the available space. Building ‘liquid’ designs fixes this problem by making the layout fit the screen. They expand or shrink to the available, no matter what browser window size or resolution the user might be using. To do this, specify the width in percentages [e.g. 100%] – the copy inside the table will expand along with it.

Music, images, flash, splash, JavaScript will increase download time. Flash files are especially hard on bandwidth consumption. 25% of visitors leave instead of clicking on the splash page and entering the site.

Limit yourself to no more than 5 or 6 images per page, keep image files 12K or smaller in size, and convert to .gif format. Reduce the amount of colors in the image. Compare file sizes between the tweaked image and the original, in NetMechanic’s free Gif Optimizer. Image editors, such as PhotoShop, have an option to save an image for the Web.

Frames take up a lot screen space, are distracting and Search Engine robots do not read pages with frames! All they see are the outlines of the frames, the ‘frameset’. They don’t see any links, so assume it is a dead page.

Text color should contrast well with the background. Test your site in a variety of browsers for free at http://www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html.

It is common for something to cause the site to disappear, so make a copy and keep it current.

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LogiSphere Webcam Server for Windows

(PRWEB) May 7, 2005

New tilt/pan software for the Logitech Sphere camera.

Logitech includes software to track faces in front of the camera. Unfortunately there is no software included to deliver pictures to the web nor tilt/pan control. For many owners this is a huge disappointment.

Now there is a solution:

With LogiSphere, you can control the camera from any browser and move the camera.

Unlike other software, this application has a very small footprint and does not use much of the computers resources.

It supports any windows compatible video device, but tilt/pan operation is supported for the Logitech Sphere only.

Even without a camera the software makes sense:

the included web server will deliver web pages and other files.

Installation is simple. Examples provide three different views:

single picture, no motion control

live video with tilt/pan control using JavaScript

live video with tilt/pan control using a Java Applet

Free download from this site: http://logisphere.seiz.ch/


Download size is less than 1 MB

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Fresh Color Combos Tagged as DesignÂ’s Next Big Thing

(PRWEB) May 9, 2005

About.com recently launched in their website a wide variety of color combos involving process colors, spot colors and web colors that can be used in designing a website, an art project, a promotional material, printing needs and other design inclined job. Said color combos use playful, earthy, bright, inspirational, attractive and easy on the eyes colors to ensure dynamism.

Designers are constantly comparing their works to other designer’s work in order to know what design works. According to Judy Litt, a distinguished designer, color is definitely a large part of what makes designs work, whether it’s black and white, process color, or the Web safety palette.

Designers use varying kinds of colors to fit to their intended design. Popular set of colors are process colors, Process colors, also known as 4-color, use varying quantities of CMYK colors, short for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Spot color otherwise known as pantone, uses the exact color that the designer intended. The most common among spot color standards is the Pantone Matching System (PMS). In this kind of color standard, designers often have with them a set of swatch books to reflect their samples and codes. Web colors, on the other hand, are the creation of colors for HTML pages by mixing different quantities of Red, Green and Blue (RGB) light. Instead of ink pigments they utilize lights. These colors are web safe or colors that cannot be dithered when a restricted color palette is in use. These color combinations are picked using a 3-in-1 JavaScript color picker to compose and compare the colors; and a 4096 color picker which has a wide variety of hex values when using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

CMYK and spot color have a lot of interesting possibilities between them. They can be combined or mixed to create duotones, tritones and quadtones. Succeeding mixtures can also be used to create new colors and effects. A great percentage of designers are still clamoring for more colors. The answer to their clamor is the arrival of fresh color combos by About. These powerful combos are expected to boost every designer’s valued design.

About Rush Printing Services

Rush Printing Services is a printing company committed to meet even your most intricate and difficult printing needs. It offers a wide variety of custom printing needs using its high definition printing technologies. For queries, you can visit them at http://www.rushprintingservices.com.

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Canoo Releases UltraLightClient 6.0

Basel, Switzerland (PRWEB) May 9, 2005

Canoo Engineering AG (http://www.canoo.com/) announces the official release of UltraLightClient 6.0 (http://www.canoo.com/ulc/). The release includes out-of-the-box functionality to pause and resume application sessions in Rich Internet Applications. Used by enterprises to rapidly build and deploy rich, responsive user interfaces for enterprise web applications, the Canoo library now offers near-equivalence to Swing. Companies can reuse available Swing know-how and be productive almost immediately. Newly added Swing features include a new Border API, action support for listeners and full support of layouts.

The Java Solution for Enterprise Web Applications

UltraLightClient is a lean library that delegates tasks to the standard J2EE/J2SE infrastructure whenever possible. It uses Swing on the client, standard communication protocols set by the J2EE container, and standard lifecycle management on the server. In contrast to other more proprietary platforms, UltraLightClient is an add-on library for Swing and J2EE and can be easily integrated into existing web platforms. The principal design of UltraLightClient is based on the half-object and protocol pattern. Applied to Swing, this pattern is used to offer the Swing API in a server-side programming model, providing rich user interfaces in a web architecture. UltraLightClient-based applications can be deployed in any J2EE container, as a portlet, or even stand-alone without changing the code. On the client, a standard JRE from 1.3.1 upwards is all that is required. See Key Differentiators (http://www.canoo.com/ulc/home/keydifferentiators.html) to find out how the Canoo solution compares with other technologies.

Pause and Resume Application Sessions

UltraLightClient 6.0 provides functionality to pause and resume a user session including its editing state, e.g. current windows opened, selections, and scroll positions. This means that when the application is paused on the client, the client-side engine is terminated, while the server-side session remains live. Once a client requests the server to resume a session, it can be downloaded to the client again, showing the user interface in the same state as before. Other brand-new features include action support for components with action listeners, a new Border API, and full support of Swing layouts. In addition, the extension API now supports Swing factory methods. Using this enhancement, developers can extend existing UltraLightClient classes more easily.

Minimal Learning Curve for Swing Developers

Developers familiar with Swing are productive with UltraLightClient within a very short time. The new release closely follows the Swing API. In many cases, code migration from Swing to UltraLightClient simply entails replacing the corresponding class and method names. With UltraLightClient, Swing developers have a homogeneous environment for developing web applications with complex GUIs. There is no need to juggle between JSP, JavaScript, and HTML to achieve interactive client/server applications.

Software Requirements

UltraLightClient requires JRE 1.3.1 or higher.

Pricing

A developer license of UltraLightClient costs US$ 1499 and includes free runtime distribution on any number of servers. A free evaluation license is available for 30 days.

Code Community for UltraLightClient Developers

The UltraLightClient Code Community (http://ulc-community.canoo.com/) provides a platform for developers to share useful extensions, add-ons and integration snippets. All code contributions are available for free.

About Canoo

Canoo (http://www.canoo.com/) is specialized in object-oriented, J2EE-based software, delivering solutions for business applications and products for software development. The software company is based in Basel, Switzerland and is participating in the Eclipse Visual Editor project. Currently, more than 50 customers use UltraLightClient. Besides UltraLightClient, the Canoo product range includes UltraLightClient, a software library for Swing-based Rich Internet Applications; WMTrans, a software library for language analysis and generation; and Webtest, an open-source, XP-style functional testing tool for Java-based web applications.

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Canoo annonce la sortie officielle de l'UltraLughtClient 6.0.

(PRWEB) May 11, 2005

Canoo annonce la sortie d’UltraLightClient 6.0

La version 6.0 comporte de nouvelles fonctionnalités telles que l’arrêt et

reprise des sessions d’applications, un nouvel border API, un soutien d’action pour les listeners et une prise en charge des layouts Swing.

Bâle, Suisse, 09 mai 2005 – Canoo Engineering AG annonce la sortie officielle de l’UltraLightClient 6.0.

(http://www.canoo.com/ulc/products/canooulc.html)

Cette nouvelle version inclut des fonctionnalités prêtes à l’emploi qui permettent entre autre, d’arrêter et reprendre les sessions d’application dans une Application Internet Riche(AIR).

Ce logiciel est employé par les entreprises pour constuire et déployer des interfaces utilisateurs riches et réactives pour des applications web d’entreprise, Canoo offre maintenant une proche équivalence à Swing.

Les entreprises peuvent réutiliser leurs connaissances préexistantes en Swing

et être productives presque immédiatement.

Parmi les caractéristiques/éléments Swing ajouté dernièrement, on compte notamment un nouvel border API,

le soutien d’action pour les actions listeners et une prise en charge complète des layouts Swing.

La solution Java pour les applications web d’entreprise

UltraLightClient est une bibliothèque légère qui délègue les tâches à l’infrastructure

J2EE/J2SE standard lorsque cela est possible. UltraLightClient utilise Swing sur le client,

les protocoles de communication standards sont établis par le container J2EE et une

gestion de cycle de vie standard sur le serveur. En opposition à d’autres plateformes plus propriétaires,

UltraLightClient est une bibliothèque complément de Swing et J2EE, qui peut être facilement intégrée dans des plateformes web préexistantes.

L’atout principal d’UltraLightClient repose sur le pattern demi-objet et protocole.

Ce pattern, appliqué à Swing, sert à proposer l’API Swing dans un modèle de programmation côté serveur, fournissant des interfaces utilisateurs riches dans une architecture web.

Les applications basées sur ULC peuvent être déployées dans n’importe quel container J2EE,

en tant que portlet ou même en tant qu’application autonome sans changer le code.

Sur le client il suffit d’un JRE standard 1.3.1 et plus

Consultez les principaux différentiateurs (http://www.canoo.com/ulc/home/keydifferentiators.html)

pour découvrir le logiciel de Canoo en comparaison avec d’autres technologies.

La fonction Arrêt et Reprise des sessions d’application

UltraLightClient propose une fonctionnalité qui permet l’arrêt et la reprise d’une session

utilisateur incluant par exemple l’état d’édition, les sélections, les fenêtres ouvertes

et les positions de navigation/ de l’ascenseur. Cela signifie que lorsque l’application

sur le client est mise pause, le moteur côté client s’arrête, cependant l’application

côté serveur reste active. Lorsqu’un client ordonne au serveur de reprendre le cours

d’une session, celle-ci pourra être rechargée à nouveau sur le client montrant l’interface

utilisateur dans le même état qu’avant l’arrêt.

D’autres toutes nouvelles caractéristiques sont disponibles comme le soutien d’action pour

les composants avec actions listeners, un nouvel border API et une prise en charge complète des layouts Swing.

De plus, l’extension d’API soutien maitenant les méthodes Swing d’usine/par défaut.

Profitant de cette amélioration les développeurs peuvent étendre plus aisément les classes d’UltraLightClient existant déjà.

Courte durée d’apprentissage pour les développeurs Swing.

Les développeurs qui sont familiers avec Swing travaillent aisément avec UltraLightClient

en l’espace de peu de temps. La nouvelle édition suit de près l’API Swing. Dans de nombreux

cas la migration de code Swing vers UltraLightClient n’implique que le remplacement des noms de classes et de méthodes correspondantes. Avec UltraLightClient les développeurs Swing disposent d’un environnement homogène pour le développement des applications web avec des Interfaces Graphiques Utilisateurs (GUIs) complexes. Il n’est pas nécessaire de jongler avec JSP, JavaScript et HTML pour créer des applications client/serveur interactives.

Logiciels nécessaires

UltraLightClient 6.0 requiert JRE 1.3.1 ou plus

Prix

Une licence de développeur pour UltraLightClient coûte 1499 US$ et comprend la

distribution de runtime gratuite sur n’importe quel nombre de serveurs.

Une licence d’évaluation gratuite est disponible pour une durée de 30 jours.

Communauté de code pour les développeurs d’UltraLightClient

La communauté de code UltraLightClient

(http://ulc-community.canoo.com ) fournit aux développeurs une plateforme d’échange et

de partage d’extensions utiles, de compléments et de snippets d’intégration.

Tous les codes contributions sont disponibles gratuitement.

A propos de Canoo

Canoo (http://www.canoo.com ) est une entreprise spécialisée dans les logiciels orientés objet en J2EE,

qui proposent des solutions pour les applications d’entreprise et des produits pour le développement de logiciel.

L’entreprise logicielle est située à Bâle en Suisse et participe au projet Visual Editor d’Eclipse.

Actuellement, plus de 50 clients utilisent UltraLightClient.

Outre UltraLightClient, Canoo offre aussi une gamme de produits comprennant WMTrans(http://www.canoo.com/wmtrans/home/index.html),

une bibliothèque logicielle pour l’analyse et la création linguistique, de même que WebTest(http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/WebTestHome.html), un outil de test fonctionnel et open-source pour les applications web en Java.

Pour plus d’inforamtions veuillez contacter :

Contact technique:

Bruno Schaeffer

Phone + 41 61 228 94 44

Fax + 41 61 228 94 49

Email ulc-info@canoo.com

Contact presse:

Sandra Wendland

Phone + 41 61 228 94 44

Fax + 41 61 228 94 49

Email press@canoo.com

Salle de presse en ligne:

http://www.canoo.com/press.html

Version HTML :

http://www.canoo.com/news/ulcve30released.html

Téléchargez UltraLightCient 6.0

http://www.canoo.com/ulc/downloads/index.html

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Jcx.Software Announces the First Integrated Php/JavaScript Debugger

Miami FL (PRWEB) May 12, 2005

Jcx.Software today announced the immediate availability of VS.Php version 1.2; the first Php IDE that lets you debug JavaScript along side Php code in the same debug session. VS.Php leverages Microsoft JavaScript debugging engine and integrates it seamlessly with its Php debugging engine. Rich web applications like Google Mail which uses complex JavaScript code to interface with the server are increasing in popularity. VS.Php 1.2 debugging capabilities help developers create these kinds of rich web applications.

Jcx.Software founder, J. Rivera explains: “With version 1.2, you can create Php applications that contain client side JavaScript. Set breakpoints on the server side code and on the client side code. When you debug your application, VS.Php will let you step into the server side Php code and into the client side JavaScript code. It enables Php developers to create more usable and interactive web applications. VS.Php is the first Php IDE to provide this functionality.”

This release also includes Php 4 and Php 5 runtime engines to easily choose which version of Php to use. It also lets developers quickly test their applications for compatibility with both versions of the runtime for increase portability. VS.Php ships the latest available versions of the Php runtimes.

A demonstration of the new capabilities can be found here: http://www.jcxsoftware.com/tutorials.php

Founded in 2001, Jcx.Software Corp. has been a leader in providing Php development tools and solutions. Jcx.Software is a Microsoft Visual Studio Integration Partner.

Contact Information

Jcx.Software Corp.

http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php


press@jcxsoftware.com

Fax: (305) 359-5190

5648 NW 113 Ave

Miami, FL 33178

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Devstart Announces Consumer-Oriented Domain Registration Services

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) May 12, 2005

DevStart, Inc. announced today the re-launch of its network site DomainInformer. The new tools created for DomainInformer include Domain Name Suggestions, Domains Deleted/On-Hold, an Advanced “Whois” and more. These significant improvements are designed to make DomainInformer an indispensable resource for everything related to domain names.

DomainInformer (http://www.domaininformer.com), a DevStart website dedicated to domain name education, has incorporated tools designed to provide more complete information about potential domains registrations before the domain is purchased. Some of the most notable integrated tools include detailed ‘Whois’ data, positioning data from Alexa.com, and a domain name suggestion tool that offers naming alternatives to that of the searched name.

“DomainInformer has always been a great resource for webmasters, but these new tools transform it into the definitive destination for domain name research,” says Darren Tabor, CEO of DevStart, Inc.

In addition to the tools previously mentioned, there is a “Deleted and On-Hold” domain name tool which helps users find preferable domains in deleted and on hold domain name lists, and a “Newly registered” tool that provides information about recently registered domain names.

The DomainInformer site is provides guides, daily news and research, is gaining popularity as one of the places in the Internet with rich range of information about domain name industry. The site has recently added an editorial focus and an expanded news section to help visitors stay in touch with recent trends and events in the Domain Name industry.

About DevStart, Inc.

DevStart, Inc., the web development starting point, owns and operates eight websites that provide the latest industry news, free tools and developer resources. DevStart Network is a leading information center in the website promotion, domain name and web hosting industries.

The DevStart Network

HostReview.com

DomainInformer.com

PromotionWorld.com

HTMLPrimer.com

CGIDIR.com

JavaScriptSearch.com

WebKnowHow.net

DevStart.com

For more information visit, please visit http://www.devstart.com.

Investor relations:

Darren Tabor

CEO

DevStart, Inc.

(858) 558-3804

darren@devstart.com

Advertisers interested in learning more about the opportunities to reach web promotion and SEO professionals should contact Jamie Chantiles, DevStart’s Director of Sales, at 858-453-6094, or by e-mail at Jamie@devstart.com.

Jamie Chantiles

Director of Sales

DevStart, Inc.

888-710-0600

858-453-6094

Jamie@devstart.com

Editorial Inquiries:

Milena Sotirova

Editor

DevStart, Inc.

editor@devstart.com

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